Sentences with phrase «continued declines in emissions»

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A decline in the Russian oil industry in the 1990s contributed to a global decline in methane emissions which continued until the early 2000's.

Harmful greenhouse gas emissions should continue to fall in industrialized countries and recent signs of decline in China should continue, but emissions are set to rise in India, southeast Asia and Africa as energy demand growth dwarfs efforts to improve air quality.

AQMD's Sam Atwood attributed the increase in bad air days to weather patterns, noting that overall, smog - forming emissions continue to decline.

A long - term experiment revealed that growth declined and individual branches were damaged when the water was undersaturated with aragonite (Ω < 1)-- a condition that could be achieved in 2100, according to model calculations of the IPCC in case emissions continue to develop at current rates.

New data published Monday by a global team of researchers show that sharp declines in Chinese coal burning and a continued surge of renewable energy worldwide may have contributed to the first - ever global decline in emissions during a year when the overall global economy grew.

2008 data shows emissions have declined since peaking in 1999, but in recent years have oscillated around a flat trajectory, which the Commission expects to continue through 2010.

«With coal quickly disappearing in the UK and other fossil fuel use mostly flat, emissions have continued their steady decline.

While those emissions have continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as coal combustion ramped up in Asia.

Note that, in the 350 case, after a long, steady decline (continuing at about 10 % annually), emissions in 2040 will have dropped to less than 90 % below 1990 levels.

While total campus emissions were flat, emissions associated with MIT's academic buildings (comprising 94 percent of MIT's total emissions) continued to decline in 2017.

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

Even if the accounting behind D.C.'s climate progress were trustworthy, it is highly unlikely that the rapid decline in emissions will continue without substantive new policy interjections.

This trend is expected to continue in all the markers, except A2 in which an increased use of coal «counters» a decline in specific emissions in OECD90 (Figure 5 - 20).

Vaughan Pratt June 23, 2015 at 3:52 am ... So why is it that those insisting the hiatus is going to continue for decades refuse to acknowledge that the last five years of HadCRUT4 have seen a terrifying rise of 3.3 °C / century during that period, yet are perfectly happy to point to a single year's change in CO2 emissions as proof that those emissions are now on the decline?

Since 2012, declines and the subsequent stability in the price of motor gasoline and other fuels, along with the continued economic recovery, have led to higher fuel consumption and increases in energy - related CO2 emissions in the transportation sector.

Despite continued economic growth, emissions in the U.S. are on a steady decline thanks in large part to cheap natural gas.

As temperatures in the Northwest continue to rise this century, scientists expect snowpack to keep declining.2 In the Cascades, scientists project a reduction of as much as 40 percent in the amount of snow on April 1 by the 2040s, under a business - as - usual emissions path.11, in the Northwest continue to rise this century, scientists expect snowpack to keep declining.2 In the Cascades, scientists project a reduction of as much as 40 percent in the amount of snow on April 1 by the 2040s, under a business - as - usual emissions path.11, In the Cascades, scientists project a reduction of as much as 40 percent in the amount of snow on April 1 by the 2040s, under a business - as - usual emissions path.11, in the amount of snow on April 1 by the 2040s, under a business - as - usual emissions path.11, 12

Europe has also seen a general decline in emissions despite continued economic growth, and a small drop in global emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?emissions despite continued economic growth, and a small drop in global emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?Emissions Peaked?»).

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

The bill would have the U.S. reduce emissions at affected facilities by approximately 19 percent in the next decade and then continue on a declining path after that.

The leadership of our signatories, and others, has ensured that America's emissions continued to decline in 2017, even with federal policies curtailing progress.

And if CO2 forcing is not the primary driver of ice decline, a rebound may occur despite continued growth in CO2 emissions.

Seth Dunn, «Global Temperature Steady» and «Carbon Emissions Continue Decline,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 2001: The Trends that are Shaping Our Future (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001), pp. 50 - 53.

But what if The Pause continues into AR6 and beyond, i.e. a flat or declining atmospheric global mean temperature in the face of ever - rising GHG emissions?

Power sector emissions continued to decline, but emissions from the transport, buildings and industrial sectors all grew, offsetting half the decline in the power sector.

The headline story was that while emissions continued to fall last year, the pace of decline slowed from an annual average 1.3 % between 2005 and 2016 to under 1 % in 2017.

A decline in temperature during 1940 - 1970 of about 0.1 oC occurred, despite continuing rise in emissions, due to aerosol reflectance effects and a decline in the sun spot cycle.

Real - world CO2 emissions have tracked the high end of earlier emissions scenarios [105], and until the currently wealthy countries can produce a large decline in their own emissions per capita, it is dubious to project that emissions per capita in the less developed countries will not continue on a trajectory up to the levels of currently wealthy countries.16

Methane emissions from natural gas and oil development continue to decline in a number of America's top energy - producing areas, according to a report by the group Energy in Depth (EID).

If emission reductions are enforced in Australia, and the world, the value of coal will continue to decline and the recycling rather than the mining of metals will become much more economically attractive — a lot of the money will go out of mining.